America can you not be corrupt for one single moment please
Nope. the days of pretending are over. Now its the days of gangsters with "fuck you money" ruling the country, and everyone else being told to deal with it. Basically Russia in the 1990s as everything is robbed and pilfered by private interests
That only happens if they're not stopped.
Well, they control the media, they monitor the tools we use to communicate with each other online. they spy on us. Most of the governments are subservient to them. And the few times someone actually does get through to burn something or someone, they pull out all the stops, and charge them with terrorism.
seems to me that the "world elites" already won the game.
This should be an automatic forced recusal.
But it wont be, because the billionaires and CEOs are scared, and don't care about the appearance of propriety. They want Luigi sacrificed on an altar to instill fear and intimidation into those that might follow his example.
I guess conflicts of interest just aren't a thing anymore.
IKR. They are allowed to veto jurors or ti move the whole trial in order to reach a nonbias journey but apparently that doesn’t apply to the judge? Yikes beyond yikes.
Nothing to be avoided anymore. Something to seek out.
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The decisions he'd struck,
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Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.
Not happily married, I hope.
"I swear, officer, that I didn't kill that judge. The fact that my search history indicates an interest in 3D printed guns, and I own the works of Karl Marx, AND I was wearing a free "Free Luigi" shirt doesn't prove anything."
There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.
Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.
As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.
And now he's getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.
If we're going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let's start with the cops.
Say what you can about communism, but you clearly see that capitalism is so much worse.
lol and I say this as someone who grew up in Soviet occupied eastern europe. Trust me, there are very few systems worse than communism, well at least, that version of it.
Okay, move to Cuba or North Korea where they still try to pursue communism and where they still have not realized how broken system it is. You will surely enjoy life there :D
You think North Korea's godking is the accurate administration of communism...?
So far every "attempt" at communism has resulted in some form of dictator, so it's not surprising that the idea of communism leaves a sour taste for a lot of people.
It really doesn't help that there are communities that look at the Russian outcome of communism and claim that was a good result.
Well, obviously every attempt at communism results in a dictatorship. To achieve communism, you firstly need a dictatorship but since it’s impossible to achieve communism, you will end up with socialist dictatorship. That’s why it sucks.
Has anything ever been ok in any of these countries? Russia has always been a totalitarian shit hole, same with China. Communism is just a part of their shitty history of oppression and dictators.
Not really, Russia went from an empire with kings /queens into a revolution into a "communjst" dictatorship.
China was similar but I think had a step in the middle, hence the split with Taiwan.
A monarchy is a dictatorship. It's literally someone with absolute authority dictating how what happens in a country.
Cuba seems like a decent place to live tbh, especially given the circumstances that we've imposed on them.
They have some of the best healthcare and doctors in the world.
If you promise to stay there, I will buy you a one way ticket. Thanks
No need my man (or lady, or enby), the coming brain drain will not cost you anything. Well not money at least.
I've got no problem taking my engineering degree somewhere that doesn't worship at the altar of unfettered capitalism.
Cuba is very much a surveillance state, otherwise I believe the main drawbacks are due to oppressive sanctions.
What isn't a surveillance state these days? Very few I imagine.
True, although I would be surprised if for example Britain or the USA has as many political prisoners.
Judges don't have conflicts of interest in communism?
They don't have additional benefits of owning insurance company everyone else doesn't. And neither there would be insurance companies anyway.
Communism lifted an illiterate nation of serfs into an industrial and atomic super power in, like, 50 years.
Which is to say just as bad as capitalism but approximately four times faster.
But was it communism? Or was it labour camps and dictatorship?
They're the same picture.
Heard someone say that their grandparents who left the USSR during the collapse in the early 90's told them something along the lines of "not everything the Soviet government promised us about communism was true, but everything they told us about capitalism is true."
I don’t think any of the nations who call themselves “communists” can actually be considered communist. Hell, most of them are pretty much dictatorships, which is the farthest you can get from communism.
If were gonna start arguing semantics though, then what is pure capitalism? As even the US has limits on what capitalist shenanigans they draw the lines on. Ie policies like antitrust laws, which are explicitly to prevent monopolies, because while capitalism strive for monopolies, monopolies also usually kill the market so...
The answer is obviously socialism when defined as the government owning or regulating the means of production, meaning just regulation is enough no need to own them.
Communism doesn't work yet because we can't seem to plan resources use for large economies as efficiently as organic markets do it.
But unregulated markets just destroy themselves, end up overexpensive enshittified adfests trying to push subpar products to you that won't last you even the walk home.
Capitalism is like the cancerous form of market economies.
And communism has historically been about as healthy as the vegan diet of a nutritionally uninformed anemic teenager. Its not bad as an idea, but market economies just work better when they're properly regulated.
I'd definitely argue with you that countries like China aren't actually communist.
you people clearly don't know what you are talking about. "conflict of interest" only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires
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I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn't think they'd be this obvious about it.
The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It's just finding a judge without wealth is impossible ... which in and of itself is a problem.
This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.
Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance
Health insurance industry: we can make it worse
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